Stubby, a Boston terrier, is scrounging for food in the streets of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1917 when he is adopted as a mascot by the 102nd Infantry Regiment and finds himself on the way to France and the trenches of World War I where he soon learns to save his soldiers by alerting them to impending gas attacks, and eventually is awarded a medal by General Pershing.
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call number/section: 1000
subjects: boston terrier, juvenile fiction, dogs, war use, world war, 1914-1918, chemical warfare, united states, heroes, fiction, boston terriers, heroes and heroines, france, history, german occupation, 1914-1918, juvenile fiction, connecticut, 20th century, fiction, 1914-1940, historical fiction, war fiction